Yvonne
and I reached 250 students at
El Rancho High School today, despite the rain.
It was great!
At Fullerton College,
I met two people (above) who went vegetarian
because of our booklets, one of whom refused to
have a picture taken unless I was in it!—Nikki Benoit(above left),12/18/10

Congratulations to
Nikki,
Adopt a College’s top fall
leafleter. She personally handed booklets directly
to 74,190 students at 94 different schools!

Kate
St. John of the Animal Awareness Project
helps another James Madison University student
take action for the animals.

Despite
the rain, Cassandra and I reached
1,010 students at Rutgers University. Met nine
vegans and countless vegetarians, and heard
students tell each other to read it, that they
read it earlier in a class, etc. The most common
comment of the day was, “Aww this is going
to make me so sad.” I saw several students
pick up discarded booklets and start reading
them!
This was a telling
exchange:
Random dude: “My
dad is a butcher, hah.”
Me: “OK…so?”
Him: “Oh,
I thought you would hate me for that.”
Me: “Nope,
but you should read this.”
Him: “OK.
I definitely don’t plan on following his line
of work. It’s gross anyway.”—Eileen Botti, 10/27/10

Cold
and rainy at the University of
Iowa. Several students thanked me for leafleting.
One guy stopped to say, “I got one of your
leaflets two years ago, and I am now almost
entirely vegetarian. Your work makes a difference.
Thank you for being here.” —Fred Tyler, 10/26/10

After
meeting Brian Grupe, a new vegetarian at
Santa Rosa Junior College studies her Guide
to Cruelty-Free Eating.

Great
outreach at Sonoma State. A professor
asked me to come and speak with her class. I
showed Meet Your Meat and the class
was floored. I asked for a show of hands if the majority of the information
on the video was new to them, and ALL OF THEM
raised their hands. Every student.
Our discussion went really well – all
but two students wanted a Guide
at the end of the period.—Brian Grupe, 10/26/10

After giving a talk and
handing out booklets at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, a number of students said they wanted
to leaflet with me. Another student said her
family back home would freak out if she went
vegan when she was there, but college “seems
like the time and the place to go vegan.”
Indeed! —Barbara Bear, 10/22/10

We had
great interactions at Eastern
Michigan University. One student came back and
spoke to Brian for 15 minutes – likely
going veg. Another student stopped 20 feet
after getting a leaflet and read it for a long
time, right in the middle of class change. One
girl said the leaflet made her sad and Brian
said, “That’s good, it means you have a heart.”
Another student
told me eating meat is a personal choice. He
slowly came around to see that while something
like what shirt you wear is a personal choice,
cutting off the beaks of birds is not a personal
choice, because it involves another. —Vic Sjodin, 10/26/10

Until
we end the industry by removing demand,
there will always be branches of evil to contend with.Please have
your donation doubled today – and
strike at the root!

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